. The locomotive engineer . &Oermantonn Houd: it did fairly well, but wasvtTj- rigid and hard riding. Lite iu 1836. the firm of Garrett & Eastwicfe, ofPhiladelphia, built an 8-wheeler, called the Her-cules. for the Beaver Meadow Road (now theLehigh Valloy) in which an attempt was made tomake the engine more flexible Mr. Easlwick de▼ised a separate fmme with pedestals, in which the equalizer of Easlwick & Harrison, nnd at onceturned out bis first-claSs •Candafter^vard said shewas the best en^e he had then turned out. In 1839. EastWTck & Harrison got an order fromthe Reading Road for a then ■big

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. The locomotive engineer . &Oermantonn Houd: it did fairly well, but wasvtTj- rigid and hard riding. Lite iu 1836. the firm of Garrett & Eastwicfe, ofPhiladelphia, built an 8-wheeler, called the Her-cules. for the Beaver Meadow Road (now theLehigh Valloy) in which an attempt was made tomake the engine more flexible Mr. Easlwick de▼ised a separate fmme with pedestals, in which the equalizer of Easlwick & Harrison, nnd at onceturned out bis first-claSs •Candafter^vard said shewas the best en^e he had then turned out. In 1839. EastWTck & Harrison got an order fromthe Reading Road for a then ■big enjrinc; shewas lo weigh all of (^cwH lous, not less than nin€tons to be on four drivers, and must burn anthra-cite coal in a borizonial boiler. This euginc. wheobuilt and in service, made the fortunes of herbuilders. In order to properly distribute the weight, tberear axle was placed under the fire-box, just asthey are now in mogul and consolidation engines;the boiler was a dome or Bury boiler, nnd. |f^, fg I^^W lr=^. R /^^

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